{"id":23756,"date":"2020-06-22T06:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T06:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23756"},"modified":"2020-06-22T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T10:11:30","slug":"iit-palakkad-develops-ultrasound-for-covid-19-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/iit-palakkad-develops-ultrasound-for-covid-19-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT-Palakkad develops ultrasound for COVID-19 screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian Institutes of Technology, Palakkad, has developed an automated lung ultrasound (LUS) for COVID-19 screening and monitoring through cloud-based image analysis and scoring system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The app, the first of its kind in India, is now available for clinicians to perform automated analysis by just uploading the ultrasound video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A nursing assistant (in the absence of a skilled clinician), following a simple protocol of LUS, acquires the lung images and transfers the images to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The images are analysed over the cloud and scores are assigned according to certain criteria either for the type of infection or its severity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The methodology would be extremely useful in time-critical COVID-19 working conditions, where clinicians have time limitations in manually evaluating ultrasound videos of all patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approach is not only restricted to COVID-19 detection but also helps to identify other lung infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Institutes of Technology, Palakkad, has developed an automated lung ultrasound (LUS) for COVID-19 screening and monitoring through cloud-based image analysis and scoring system. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The app, the first of its kind in India, is now available for clinicians to perform automated analysis by just uploading the ultrasound video. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":23757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-23756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23813,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23756\/revisions\/23813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23756"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=23756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}